Supreme Audit Institutions have faced a number of challenges in efforts to improve internal and/or audit management. Currently, focus is on the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the challenges of which encompass and exceed everything we have...

I will in my blog travel back in time. The year is 2004 and the location is Lilongwe, Malawi. I have just arrived in Malawi as a relatively young man, to become the new long term advisor to the National Audit Office of Malawi. I am extremely excited, naively...

Fifteen years ago, I made the journey from Barbados to the Cayman Islands and from auditing in the private sector to, for the first time, auditing in the public sector. Not only did my journey bring a new cultural perspective but also a revitalized passion for my...

China’s first Auditor-General, Mr Yu Mingtao, is turning 100 years old in 2017. He was appointed Auditor-General in 1983 when the National Audit Office of China was established. In a recently published book, he recalled the early days when he, as the new Auditor...

In my work with the Organization of Latin American and Caribbean Supreme Audit Institutions (OLACEFS) over the past five years, it has been gratifying to see oversight bodies cooperate more closely. In particular, eLearning courses and coordinated audits involving...

  It is said that to whom much is given, much is expected. This usually comes to mind, whenever I get to think of the opportunities that Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) have given to their personnel like sending them to training programs, knowledge sharing...

We train them and then they leave! As we implement the ISSAIs, especially the financial audit ISSAIs, we need professional staff but how do we train and re-train them? In one way or other this was a constant refrain in the formal and informal discussions at the recent...

The Journal is the official communication and information sharing tool of INTOSAI and is published by the Government Accountability Office--the SAI for the United States. The Journal is translated into its five official languages with the help and in-kind...

Haraka haraka haina baraka is a Swahili proverb that directly translated says "Hurry, hurry, has no blessings". This is the English equivalent of the expression “more haste less speed”. If something is important and needs to be done well then it is should not be...

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” – George Bernard Shaw When it comes to communication, never have truer words been said. Too often, the act of sending an email, having a conversation or publishing a report, is...